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The tiny office of North Kensington Law Centre is in a long, gloomy cellar beneath a council block adjoining Grenfell Tower in west London. A few yards away, the bur stanley spain ned-out tower looms, covered in white plastic sheeting, a reminder of the injustice and social neglect the centre was set up to challenge.NKLCs director, Annie Campbell Viswanathan, said: We provide access to justice for people who cannot afford to take up their rights. The mission has changed little since NKLC was up as the UKs first law centre in 1970 to take on exploitative landlords in what were then the slum areas of Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove.Housing remains a huge part of its work, especially since the Grenfell fire in 2017. It provided assistance for scores of families who lived in and around the tower. But the centre also manages a growing immigration caseload fuelled stanley nz by the hostile environment policies that triggered the Windrush scandal.The scandal, revealed in a series of awa stanley website rd-winning Guardian articles, showed how members of the Caribbean community in the UK were detained, made homeless and jobless, and in some cases deported, despite having lived legally in the country for decades, simply because they lacked documentation to prove they had a right to stay.Campbell Viswanathan said law centres started picking up hostile environment cases from 2013, as people 鈥?not only from the Caribbean 鈥?came to them having been suspended from their jobs. As immigration conditions tightened, people turned u Apsr Report into deaths in custody in England and Wales kicked into long grass
The justice secretary, Liz Truss, is to reject making deep cuts in the record 85,000 prison population in England and Wales warning that such quick fix solution stanley cup s would put the public at greater risk.She is to a stanley cup rgue that the biggest driver of the growth in the prison population in the last 20 years has not been longer prison sentences, as is often claimed, but a much tougher approach to sexual offences, domestic violence and child abuse.To cut jail suicides, cut the prison population | LettersRead moreThe justice secretary is to say that the 140% increase in sex offenders being sent to jail since 2000 and the 75% increase in custodial sentences for violent offenders has led to a profound change in the nature of the jail population in England and Wales. Three out of every five offenders are now inside for crimes of sex, stanley cup drug pushing or violence.In a speech on Monday to the Centre for Social Justice, Truss will say she wants to see a reduction in the prison population by reforming offenders through early intervention and more effective community penalties, and by better managing those who are locked up.She will in particular condemn calls by Labour frontbenchers, including most recently from the shadow attorney-general, Shami Chakrabarti, to halve the prison population by handing out shorter prison sentences. Reductions by cap or quota, or by sweeping sentence cuts are not a magic bullet, they are a dangerous attempt at a quick fix, the justice secretary is expected to say.
The tiny office of North Kensington Law Centre is in a long, gloomy cellar beneath a council block adjoining Grenfell Tower in west London. A few yards away, the bur stanley spain ned-out tower looms, covered in white plastic sheeting, a reminder of the injustice and social neglect the centre was set up to challenge.NKLCs director, Annie Campbell Viswanathan, said: We provide access to justice for people who cannot afford to take up their rights. The mission has changed little since NKLC was up as the UKs first law centre in 1970 to take on exploitative landlords in what were then the slum areas of Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove.Housing remains a huge part of its work, especially since the Grenfell fire in 2017. It provided assistance for scores of families who lived in and around the tower. But the centre also manages a growing immigration caseload fuelled stanley nz by the hostile environment policies that triggered the Windrush scandal.The scandal, revealed in a series of awa stanley website rd-winning Guardian articles, showed how members of the Caribbean community in the UK were detained, made homeless and jobless, and in some cases deported, despite having lived legally in the country for decades, simply because they lacked documentation to prove they had a right to stay.Campbell Viswanathan said law centres started picking up hostile environment cases from 2013, as people 鈥?not only from the Caribbean 鈥?came to them having been suspended from their jobs. As immigration conditions tightened, people turned u Apsr Report into deaths in custody in England and Wales kicked into long grass
The justice secretary, Liz Truss, is to reject making deep cuts in the record 85,000 prison population in England and Wales warning that such quick fix solution stanley cup s would put the public at greater risk.She is to a stanley cup rgue that the biggest driver of the growth in the prison population in the last 20 years has not been longer prison sentences, as is often claimed, but a much tougher approach to sexual offences, domestic violence and child abuse.To cut jail suicides, cut the prison population | LettersRead moreThe justice secretary is to say that the 140% increase in sex offenders being sent to jail since 2000 and the 75% increase in custodial sentences for violent offenders has led to a profound change in the nature of the jail population in England and Wales. Three out of every five offenders are now inside for crimes of sex, stanley cup drug pushing or violence.In a speech on Monday to the Centre for Social Justice, Truss will say she wants to see a reduction in the prison population by reforming offenders through early intervention and more effective community penalties, and by better managing those who are locked up.She will in particular condemn calls by Labour frontbenchers, including most recently from the shadow attorney-general, Shami Chakrabarti, to halve the prison population by handing out shorter prison sentences. Reductions by cap or quota, or by sweeping sentence cuts are not a magic bullet, they are a dangerous attempt at a quick fix, the justice secretary is expected to say.